Defence Digital Lead Product Manager

UK Ministry of Defence; Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Product Manager to drive innovative solutions within the Defence sector. This exciting role involves leading cross-functional teams, mentoring junior managers, and ensuring product alignment with Defence priorities. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing the UK's Defence capabilities through strategic planning and effective resource management. If you are passionate about making a critical difference and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity could be your next career move.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Civil Service Pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Special Paid Leave for volunteering

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Good travel links with free car parking

Sports & Social Club and Gyms

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Agile frameworks and product management.
• Ability to mentor teams and guide Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute product strategy aligned with stakeholders.
• Balance resources to optimize delivery outcomes.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Lean practices

Product management

Strategic planning

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Job summary

Defence Digital ensures our Armed Forces remain among the most technologically advanced in the world. We do this by putting innovative and effective technology into the hands of over 200,000 users, from the boardroom to the front line.

We lead on cutting-edge data science, automation, and cyber security at scale. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield by leading humanitarian efforts and driving digital innovation that impacts lives across the globe.

Defence Digital forms part of Strategic Command which manages the MOD’s joint capabilities for the Army, RAF, and Royal Navy.

Watch our video to see what we do at Defence Digital!

Passionate about using your skills to make a critical difference? Your next career move could be here!

As Lead Product Managers, you will be at the forefront of delivering the right capabilities to support the UK’s Defence strategy. You will own the life cycle of your product, ensuring it aligns with Defence priorities and delivers maximum operational value. Your responsibilities will include ensuring your team understands and executes tasks of the highest priority, optimising resources to maximise their impact, and collaborating directly with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

In this role, you will also mentor and coach junior Product Managers, supporting their development and building expertise across the organisation. With potential oversight of complex products or larger teams, you will play a key role in maintaining stakeholder alignment and delivering innovative, mission-critical outcomes that strengthen the UK’s Defence capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Balancing resources between teams to ensure the overall outcomes are aligned to product vision and use of resources are optimised to deliver best value.
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
• Develop and execute product strategy that keeps key stakeholders informed, aligns to product vision, and ensure customer value is prioritised.
• Communicate the product vision and strategy and progress towards outcomes both internally to the team and externally to stakeholders.
• Work with the problem owner to ensure problem is fully understood and product solution meets their needs.
• Provide information needed to enable users to make the most of the products its life cycle, e.g. ensure service management has timely access to product and information so they can support it.

Please refer to the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework for more information about the skills required for this role:

Product manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk)

Person specification

We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated Lead Product Managers to enhance our Product Management team. The ideal candidates will be adaptable, perceptive, and comfortable working in a fast paced and complex environment.

It is crucial that you have the capability to mentor and guide teams in Agile and Lean practices. As a recognised expert and proponent of these methodologies, you should constantly reflect and encourage the team to innovate or adapt new practices.

The successful candidates will also be trained as service assessors to participate in both internal and cross-government service assessments.

When submitting your CV, please highlight the essential criteria listed below:

• Extensive experience working in one or more Agile frameworks.
• Experience in a mixed environment where Agile interfaces with other delivery methods (e.g. Waterfall) collaborating to arrive at pragmatic compromises.
• Have a clear understanding of the difference between product development and bespoke customisation.
• Experience in strategic planning, product ownership, and a user focused approach is essential.

Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Flexible working options- we understand the importance of adapting work to your life.
• Inclusion and diversity- our culture celebrates uniqueness and encourages collaboration of diverse thought.
• A pension scheme which secures your future.
• Generous annual leave- starting with 25 days and growing to 30 after just 5 years.
• Minimum of 15 Days Special Leave in a rolling 12-month period to volunteer for military or emergency service reserve commitments.
• Special Paid Leave for volunteering up to 6 days a year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Most sites have good travel links with free car parking; many also have other facilities such as a Sports & Social Club and Gyms
• You can read more here- Civil Service Employee Benefits , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

Hybrid Working

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity. Requirements to attend other locations for official business or work in another MOD office will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). The successful candidate is required to carry out all their duties from a UK location and cannot do so from an overseas location at any time. This post is working 37 hours per week.

Things you need to know

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

To apply, please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard. There will also be a section for you to provide your answers to the questions and each answer should be no longer than 500 words.

Please ensure your responses highlight your relevance to the essential criteria listed in the person specification. Your CV and evidence-based questions will be scored from 1-7 to determine your suitability for an interview.

Evidence Based Questions:

• Explain how you used Digital Service principles to deliver value efficiently?
• Describe how you have leveraged data analytics to prioritise product features within an Agile environment.

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We’ll assess you against these Behaviours and Technical Skills during the interview process:

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical Skills:

• User Focus
• Establishing and using a Product Vision and Strategy

In addition to the interview, you will be required to present for 5 minutes on a topic related to the role. The topic of the presentation will be sent to you at least 24 hours prior to your interview. We will try and offer as much flexibility as we can, but it may not be possible to offer alternative dates for interviews or assessments.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name :DD Talent Acquisition Team

Recruitment team

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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